Upgrade Linux Mint From One Version To The Next 

Especially now there is a Debian version

Right, I've put like 30 different distros on my drive, and mint with cinnamon has never failed me. They're all the same if you know what you are doing, just different types and versions of packages.

But somehow mint 21 cinnamon feels a little buggy

Lmao you can't say that when you have to enter a command to upgrade

@@cempack you don't have to use terminal. This is his way of doing that.

Yepp, gotta install mintupgrade first 💪

Your girlfriend is thinkpad?

@@darukutsu Try again.

@@utubepunk nah he was right

girlfriend? you are not a true linux user

You gave a laptop to your right hand?

Comfortable. That's a good description.

Mint and ZorinOS are the benchmarks of ease of access and friendliness to new users.

Comfort and ease of use are the main selling points of Mint 💪

@Jugoslavija Linux Mint works! You don't have to fix things, it just works. It works for most people, including me and those who need to have their computer resurrectd!

@Jugoslavija I know, it's a great distro! High five!

if u need windows for a game or whatever just use virtual machine

What are you doing here leaving comments? That's EXP waste.

@linyos torovoltosI mean if you're doing serious gaming you're prob gonna have a separate dedicated GPU anyway.. but people without it might as well stick to windows tbh if you're really serious

There are plenty of Linux fans all around the world. Rainy Greetings from Germany 💪🇩🇪

Many people want a all GUI solution and thats where mintupgrade shines 💪😁

I think you are correct, the same is true for apt. IIRC it normally says something like "the following packages are no longer needed and will be removed" when you do "apt upgrade" on any *buntu I have used..

Yepp, mintupgrade is a fantastic tool which makes the upgrade a breeze. 🙏

It not only offers, it forces you to create a snapshot 💪😅

I take this a step further and use Clonezilla to image my entire system and store it for a rainy day. I've heard too many horror stories of timeshft rollbacks being unsuccessful.

@@RK-kn1ud that is interesting. Do you recon any specific details? Because timeshift is just a fancy wrapper around rsync, I can imagine whatever can go wrong with it, means that the usual strategy of backing up your system as set of files will also fail. One case I can think of myself is when you might get a fs corruption or MBR corruption - there's no way just returning back your files from a backup will help here. But what else?

@@alx8439 Nothing specific, but if you search the linuxmint subreddit you will probably find lots of people saying that using timeshft caused a bunch of issues. I'm not informed enough to determine if they were right or wrong, but a simple clone is probably better than whatever timeshift does.

@@RK-kn1ud yeah i do agree, there's nothing more solid than a full physical byte-to-byte hardcopy of the whole disk. But that approach is not for everyone, as it takes a lot of storage.

Thats the strength of Mint 💪

I have had good luck with all the *buntus I have tried. I am on KDE neon and it has been solid. Of course, it is based on LTS so not the best example. I like my KDE bleeding edge because I love to see the new features but I want most other stuff to be new enough but stable. If I feel like the ubuntu repository is too slow for any certain program I just add it's repo or "nightly" or whatever for bleeding edge. As far as I understand flatpaks work similarly. This video did inspire me to look into setting up snapshots somehow... Now I have a weekend project, wish me luck!

@@MaxUgly Good Luck, Sir 💪😎

@@ArniesTech TY! I thought it was going to be difficult because I am using ext4. I was under the impression I needed something more modern like btrfs. I just read a few forums and reddit posts, found Timeshift in Discover, installed it, configured it and made a snapshot! I think I am going to plug in an old sata ssd so that my snapshot is on another drive. I already backup my /home to a btrfs hdd striped/mirrored array once every few days.

Voids ISO is a year old and doesn't break when updating like 20 kernel versions ahead. G.O.A.T 🐐

Yup. They keep making it better & better.

The Mint Team has got you covered. Mintupgrade is a fantastic tool that makes the upgrade a breeze 💪

And that's why point releases are archaic as hell. Rolling will always reign supreme PERIOD

It's actually possible if you'll skip not one but many releases. At least it's true with Ubuntu.

@@Perry.... seems like i must do a Video on Point vs Rolling releases 💪😁

Do you use cinnamon or xfce?

@@elixirmotivation cinnamon!

I switched from win7 to mint 20.3 XFCE with Twister UI with win95 theme. I had a hard time getting the audio quality to be currect. It was a lot of editing config files and running commands to see what worked. I ended up changing the audio from 16bit 44khz stereo to 32bit 96khz 5.1 surround with upconvert. I also wish there was a better video player. VLC seems to be the best but it lack a lot of the features of Media Player Classic which is an open source software for windows. It would be nice if DT did a video on configuring audio.

Sometimes it pays to start fresh....

How much RAM do you have?

I hope someone answers. I have Mint on my laptop as well & I wouldn't even notice if the fan never kicked on! 😬

I'm on 21 Cinnamon Mint. After suspension, I don't get this issue. Mint might not be the problem. Hope you can figure it out!

I was just as impressed 💪🇩🇪

Every week or so. Most distros have a way to turn on automatic updates and to schedule updates, if you don't want to have remember to do it yourself.

I most often use the GUI Update Manager...except the rare occasions to blacklist an item I don't want touched.

nvme0n1p6 luks 537 GB ↪dm-0 lvm2 537 GB ↪dm-2 ext4 34 GB (6 GB free) Anyone know how to expand the ext4 partition from 34 GB to the 537 GB?

@@utubepunk boot into gparted or live iso, open your crypt with luksOpen, then resize the encrypted partition

@@jacobhanks8420 RU-vid deleted my reply. Did you see it? I was able to get it working with a different method.

There's your problem. Dual booting in 2022 is a joke

Lol that would be a respectable feat 💪😅

That sounds like something _MichaelMJD_ would do... Go suggest it over on his channel.

it doesn't matter because the upgrade process deals with /boot and /root. your separate /home partition should be affected BUT if you're using any metacity based themes...know they probably will no longer work. Smurphos's bigger buttons metacity theme dealing with bigger min, max, and close buttons won't work as of this comment in LM21.

@@arvfrr I think you understood everything. Now, what exactly do you mean Upgrade won't be upgrading anything? I've been running that command (without Update) for a few weeks now and it lists things it is apparent upgrading. Perhaps it will simply upgrade more things if I don't update? Like the "repositories" aren't synced or something (Pardon my un-tech-savviness)? I was curious, so I hopped on my computer and typed in "sudo dnf upgrade" and it listed a bunch of things. Apparently it is installing things like "kernel-core" and "kernel-modules", upgrading things poor "pipewire-alsa" and "pipewire-gstreamer", and removing things like (another version of?) "kernel-core" and "kernel-modules." Also, it's worth nothing that I "upgraded" yesterday so perhaps there isn't much for it to upgrade, and perhaps more things would have been upgraded had I not upgraded so recently. So after I upgraded and everything was "complete!", I tried "sudo dnf update" and it came back with "Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete!" And just for good measure, in case "dependencies resolved" meant something like "respiratory updated" I went ahead and did the "sudo dnf upgrade" command again and it, too, came back with "Dependencies resolved. Nothing to do. Complete!" Is it because I'm on Fedora that these two commands seem to do the same thing? Or is there something I'm misunderstanding?

@@arvfrr Like, I noticed you're using the Debbian/Ubuntu "apt" thing. So maybe there's a difference in how they work?

@@savior132 Okay, I gotcha. Thank you for the clarification!

Depends on the mic. I move a lot too but my mic catches everything within 120° without sound alterations 🙏

@@ArniesTech Hah... Thank you!

@@Stevesteacher You are welcome, Sir 💪

I move a bit but I'm never turning my head more than probably 45 degrees each each way. And the mic isn't that far from me...maybe 4-5 inches. The camera makes it seem like there's more distance than there is. ;) Also, if your volume drops when moving around, turn up the gain a bit...and make sure you speak loudly (not shouting, but speak with some authority).

@@DistroTube Thank you! I tried what you said, I think I had my mike too close to my mouth, I moved it away a bit and turned up the volume and it seems to be much better now :)

Huh? What is it you're trying to do?

You are much better off asking for help in the forums of your distro. 💪

Nothing at all. But many users prefer as much GUI as possible. Thats where mintupgrade comes in handy. 💪

always make a system image back up before doing any major Linux distro upgrade...there is never a guarantee that all things will just work after rrh upgrade finishes and you reboot

@@motoryzen I had no choice making a back up with timeshift but next time, I will make one with Clonezilla

Yo yo!

@@DistroTube I wonder of there's a Distro made of Tubes (JK JK) How have you been?

@@DistroTube *if

Mintupgrade is a mainline edition Tool. Since LMDE isn't even planning on upgrading. But I am pretty sure this Tool will be made available for LMDE too 💪

@@ArniesTech But probably when LMDE 6 is coming they make this tool usable ?

@@angelborislavov9192 I guess so. Would be absolutely nice. As I stated in my video I am all for LMDE becoming THE only Mint anyway. Along with getting 100% of the dev power and dedication. Not just a fraction of it 💪